MEDFORD — A Massachusetts university is condemning the posting of what some are calling anti-Semitic flyers outside a campus Jewish organization.
The Tufts Daily student newspaper reports that more than two dozen flyers depicting militarized pigs were found posted on the exterior of the Granoff Family Hillel Center at Tufts University on Tuesday.
One featuring cartoon images of pigs holding guns called for the destruction of the “Israeli Apartheid Forces.”
Many of the images date to the 1960s and the Black Panther Party, but Rabbi Naftali Brawer says some were posted on Hillel windows facing inward and “we were clearly targeted as a Jewish center.” They were found nowhere else on campus.
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren has named longtime adviser Roger Lau to manage her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
The Massachusetts Democrat had previously tapped Lau to manage her 2018 re-election bid.
The selection of Lau, an Asian-American, underscores the emphasis Democrats are putting on diversity. Lau previously worked on John Kerry’s Democratic presidential campaign in 2004 before joining Warren’s staff in 2011.
WESTFIELD — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation estimates a proposal to build a new Massachusetts Turnpike exit will cost between $29.5 million and $37.8 million.
The proposal to build an exit between Exit 2 in Lee and Exit 3 in Westfield is supported by Republican state Sen. Donald Humason who says a new exit could bring new people to western Massachusetts and solve a nagging rush-hour traffic snarl at Exit 3.
From Associated Press